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Inspiration For the Week-------"Thine
eyes shall see the King in His beauty."Isaiah 33:17

The more you know about Christ the less will you be
satisfied with superficial views of Him; and the more deeply you
study His transactions in the eternal covenant, His engagements
on your behalf as the eternal Surety, and the fullness of His grace
which shines in all His offices, the more truly will you see the
King in His beauty. Be much in such outlooks. Long more and more
to see Jesus. Meditation and contemplation are often like windows
of agate, and gates of carbuncle, through which we behold the Redeemer.
Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see
Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had
lived in the days of His flesh. Would that our conversation were
more in heaven, and that we were more taken up with the person,
the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord. More meditation, and
the beauty of the King would flash upon us with more resplendence.

Beloved, it is very probable that we shall have such
a sight of our glorious King as we never had before, when we come
to die. Many saints in dying have looked up from amidst the stormy
waters, and have seen Jesus walking on the waves of the sea, and
heard Him say, "It is I, be not afraid." Ah, yes! when
the tenement begins to shake, and the clay falls away, we see Christ
through the rifts, and between the rafters the sunlight of heaven
comes streaming in. But if we want to see face to face the "King
in His beauty" we must go to heaven for the sight, or the King
must come here in person. O that He would come on the wings of the
wind! He is our Husband, and we are widowed by His absence; He is
our Brother dear and fair, and we are lonely without Him. Thick
veils and clouds hang between our souls and their true life: when
shall the day break and the shadows flee away? Oh, long-expected
day, begin!

I. The global
march toward the Mark of the Beast continued with an extremely
pertinent news story this week showing the advance toward using
Biometrics as a means of buying and selling rather than plastic
credit and debit cards!

"Need to buy milk but forgot your wallet? No
worries if you are one of the 2.5 million subscribers who've signed
up to use biometric technology by Pay By Touch that links a photocopy
like scan of your finger to a bank or credit-card account. Proponents
of the tech, which is available in selected grocery stores in 44
states, say it saves time and helps guard against credit-card fraud.
'Debit cards were good', says Amer Hawatmeh, owner of Coast to Coast
in Tampa, Fla., which just introduced the scans. 'But what could
be better than your own finger?' "

In 1988, I read a most insightful book by Mary Relfe
entitled, "When Your Money Fails".
That book was certainly ahead of its time, as the author accurately
foretold the sequence by which the Western world would progress
from an economic system based upon cash to a system based upon the
cashless "Mark of the Beast" system of Revelation 13:16-18.

Relfe felt that the last step before the False Prophet
actually forces people to take the Mark of the Beast would be a
fingerprint scan. You see, credit cards and checking accounts had
already taken the peoples of the world into a system whereby they
could regularly "buy and sell" without cash. Debit cards
were just over the horizon -- today, they are widely used.

However, all these cashless systems were external
systems and, as such, could be lost or stolen with regularity. Therefore,
Relfe believed that the final step would entail going to your body
for the identification needed to buy and sell. She felt strongly
that the final step prior to the actual "Mark of the Beast"
would be fingerprint scanning.

We seem to be at that stopping-off place now! This
article demonstrates the prerequisite attitude quite clearly. "what
could be better than your own finger?"

"Some prefer their plastic. 'We'll all have bar
codes on the back of our necks in 10 years', says Stacey Minton,
a Coast to Coast shopper who declined to sign up. 'As with any technology,
people are leery at first', says Shannon Riordan, a Pay By Touch
spokeswoman. But 'convenience wins in the end'."

Indeed, convenience will win in the end; in fact,
I believe that people are going to be pre-conditioned to accept
the ultimate Mark of the Beast by being told repeatedly how convenient
it will be to them in their everyday lives.

What form will the ultimate "Mark of the Beast"
take? Many people believe the ultimate "Mark" will be
Digital Angel, the implantable chip now being popularized by Mass
Media However, we believe this chip is too limited to perform all
the functions the Bible prophecy requires of the ultimate "Mark".

Cutting Edge posted a series of articles two years
ago on the only implantable chip into which our Federal Government
is pouring untold sums of research money: M.M.E.A.
These are our articles; we encourage you to read them carefully:

NEWS1875
-- "D.A.R.P.A. IS FUNDING AN IMPLANTABLE CHIP FAR MORE ADVANCED
THAN 'DIGITAL ANGEL'! M.M.E.A. - MULTIPLE
MICRO ELECTRODE
ARRAY IS SO ADVANCED IT CAN FULFILL
REV 13:16-18! Part 1 of 5

The bottom line seems to be that the trend is moving
toward using body parts for the identification needed to buy and
sell without cash in our current society. However long this trend
takes, the ultimate end will be that implantable chip forced upon
the whole world by the False Prophet acting on behalf of Antichrist.

Just the fact that this new technology is now coming
to the forefront is just another indication that the appearance
of Antichrist is getting very close. But, why should we be surprised,
for a great many End of the Age prophecies have either occurred,
are about to occur, or the stage is being set for completion.

This story represents just one more "Sign of
the Times".

II.
Israel suffered her greatest single day of losses in this war against
the Palestinian terror groups -- and it was on the 9th Day of Av
(8/3, also known as Tisha B'Av), the traditional annual day of disaster
and mourning for the Jewish state.

"In Israel's bloodiest day since the confrontation
with Hizbullah erupted over three weeks ago, eight civilians and
four IDF soldiers were killed on Thursday, as the army prepared
to deepen its ground incursion into Lebanon. The eight civilians
all died, and dozens were wounded, during a massive rocket barrage
on northern Israel in the afternoon, when more than 130 Katyushas
hit within a 90-minute period."

"Three of the four soldiers were killed at close
to noon when an antitank missile hit their tank during a firefight
in Rajamin in the western sector. Two died instantly, while the
third was mortally wounded."

"The names of the victims of the missile attacks
and the fallen soldiers over Tisha B'Av have been released. The
fast day saw the highest death toll in a single day since the start
of the war."

We do not feel it necessary to reprint the names of
the 4 fallen soldiers and 8 civilian deaths here; we reprint a brief
portion of this news article just to demonstrate that Israel did
suffer these high losses on their day known as Tisah B'Av, or the
9th of Av, an annual day of mourning and expectation of disaster.
We noted in the August 1 News Alert the dread Jewish
people feel as the 9th of Av approaches. Since the length of the
explanation precludes us from reprinting it here, we encourage you
to go to that News Alert to read our full explanation.

Needless to say, some Israelites feel today that the
nation suffered these heavy casualties because the day was Tisha
B'Av.

As Israel was recoiling from her losses, the Iranian
leader of Hezbollah bragged about her ability to strike targets
within Israel at will.

"One of the Iranian founders of Lebanon’s
Hizbollah said in remarks published yesterday that the Shia militia
group had missiles which 'leave no spot in Israel unreachable. Hizbollah’s
arsenal not only includes Katyusha missiles, but also Zelz Al 2
missiles, which could hit targets as far as 250 kilometres, leaving
no spot in Israel unreachable', Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pour told the
centrist Shargh newspaper."

Since Israel has repeatedly accused Iran of supplying
the missiles to Hezbollah which were pummeling Israeli positions,
this Iranian Hezbollah leader resolutely refused to state from which
nation they were supplied. However, he quickly stated that these
missiles did NOT come from Iran. He then bragged about specific
Israeli targets they could reach.

"“The reason we have aimed at Haifa is
because it is a vital target .... but if it is deemed necessary
we will target Tel Aviv', Safeyodin was quoted as saying ... In
an overt show of support, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei vowed on Wednesday that the US will receive 'a destructive
punch' for its support for 'Zionists', and called on Muslims to
stand up against US 'bullying and aggression'."

“ 'Muslims everywhere must know that the only
way to fight the savage wolf of Zionism and the Great Satan’s
aggression is devoted resistance', Khamenei said."

However, breaking news on today, Saturday, August
5, revealed that Iran had finally acknowledged that she did supply
these long-range missiles to Hezbollah. Listen:

"Iran admitted for the first time on Friday that
it did indeed supply long-range Zelzal-2 missiles to Hizbullah.
Secretary-general of the 'Intifada conference' Mohtashami Pur told
an Iranian newspaper that Iran transferred the missiles so that
they could be used to defend Lebanon, Channel 1 reported. The extent
of Iran's intimate involvement in Hizbullah attacks is starting
to emerge.

"According to the defense establishment, the
reason Hizbullah has not fired long-range Iranian-made Fajr missiles
at Israel is due to Teheran's opposition. Israel now understands
that without direct orders from the ayatollahs, Hizbullah is not
allowed to use Iranian missiles in attacks against Israel. "

"The IDF also believes that it seriously damaged
the long-range rocket array in the first night of air strikes almost
three weeks ago and impaired Hizbullah's ability to fire the rockets.
"

It is highly likely that Iran did not intend for the
war between Israel and Hezbollah to begin this way, with Israel
attacking on her own terms, and with her own timing. Rather, it
is likely that Iran intended the war to occur when Iran was preparing
to go to war with Israel, some time down the road; if Israel's attack
was truly "pre-emptive", then Iran was undoubtedly caught
off guard and might truly have issued orders for the missiles to
not be used at this time.

Recent polls conducted in the United States show that
Americans have despaired over the possibility that peace could ever
exist between Israel and her Islamic enemies. This next segment
illustrates very well why peace cannot ever occur between these
two very ancient peoples.

You will be shocked to realize the parallels between
current Islamic thinking and the thinking of Hitler and Stalin.

III.
The true nature of the Islamic force opposing Israel was made quite
plain by a most interesting article which exposed Hezbollah's Nazi
roots.

NEWS BRIEF: "Hezbollah's
Nazi roots: Across the Middle East, radical Islamists yearn
for a new Holocaust", Canada's National Post, Friday,
August 04, 2006

"This is the first Middle East war in which the
main threat to Israel comes, not from secular Arab nationalism,
but from Islamism. Both Hezbollah and Hamas draw their main inspiration,
armaments and funding from Islamist sources ... What unites them
all is a fanatical dedication to the destruction of Israel."

"Sounding like a modern-day Hitler, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this week repeated his call for the 'elimination'
of Israel, home to six million Jews. Hezbollah, Iran's proxy army
in Lebanon, shares that objective. Its leader, Hassan Nasrallah,
has urged the world's Jews to collect in Israel in order to facilitate
the task of exterminating them."

Let us repeat that last sentence, for it is simply
pregnant with meaning, once you understand what it is truly saying.

"Nasrallah has urged the world's Jews to collect
in Israel in order to facilitate the task of exterminating
them."

What a profound statement! Regional Islamic leaders
actually want all the world's Jews to gather within the tiny state
of Israel so they can be eliminated that much more easily! As radical
as that thinking may sound to you, it is not a new idea. Have you
ever wondered at the historic oddity of the Soviet Union, under
the leadership of Josef Stalin, not using its Security Council veto
power in 1947 to prevent the United Nations from authorizing Israel
to be restored as a nation?

For centuries before Hitler arose to power, Russia
was known as the world's most virulantly anti-semitic nation. The
very word, "pogrom" originated from the Russian language
(Tormont Webster's Illustrated Dictionary, p. 1308). Hatred of Jews
has run deeply within the Russian collective consciousness for many
centuries; further, that hatred was shared by Stalin and his Communist
leadership.

Since this is the case, why did Stalin refuse to use
Russia's veto authority in the UN Security Council when the vote
was taken to authorize the Jews to return to their land to re-establish
Israel? Stalin took serious note of the extreme difficulty Hitler's
SS and regular armed forces had rounding up Jews from all throughout
Eastern Europe and Russia and then transport them to selected death
camps. The logistical strain was enough to cost Hitler the war because
he literally had to constantly choose which effort he would support
to the hilt -- the war or the extermination of Jews.

Since Hitler was driven by the demonic host called
into him by rituals of The Thule Society, he consistently made the
decision to give the fuel and the railroad assets to the extermination
effort, even though it meant German soldiers at the Russian and
Allied fronts went without desperately needed supplies. Untold tens
of thousands of fine German soldiers lost their lives because Hitler
consistently made the decision to fully fund the Jewish slaughter
effort -- and Germany lost the war. (A full accounting of this story
can be found in two books, "The Nazi Doctors" by Robert
Jay Lifton and "The Spear of Destiny" by Trevor Ravenscroft).

Therefore, Stalin did not cast his veto vote to prevent
the United Nations from creating Israel, because he reckoned that
the Jews could be more efficiently slaughtered at some future date
if they were encouraged to all come to the tiny land of Israel.
This strategy would not require any logistical assets to draw all
the Jews together to the extermination camp. The entire Jewish nation
would become one large death camp.

In this regard, the current thinking of Islamic leaders
parallels the thinking of Communist dictator, Josef Stalin, in 1947.

Now, let us return to our featured news article.

"One thing that Arab nationalists and Islamists
clearly have in common, though it is usually ignored in the Western
media, is their explicit debt to the Nazis. This extends even to
overt Nazi symbolism ... With houses in the Israeli town of Metullah
in the background, hundreds of uniformed Hezbollah terrorists are
raising their arms in a Nazi-style salute.
This obscene ceremony, complete with yellow standards
and mullah commanders taking the salute, was happening in full view
of Israeli civilians. Mr. Gross asks pointedly, 'Are all those now
attacking Israel around the world even capable of imagining what
an elderly Holocaust survivor who happened to glance across the
fence might have felt?' " (Emphasis added)

Not only did the Nazis create the salute Hezbollah
fighters are using, they forced Jews to wear yellow
armbands!

"The Nazi legacy also manifests itself in Holocaust
denial or revisionism, a Middle Eastern obsession that unites the
most extreme Islamists, including Iran's president, with "moderate"
secularists such as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas." (Ibid.)

Not only has the current Iranian President echoed
the theme of denying that the Holocaust never happened, but he proposed
sponsoring a global conference which would officially deny the Holocaust.

Truly, the specter of the deadly anti-semitism of
Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin rises over the current Middle East,
having poisoned the minds of Islamic leaders and citizens across
the entire Middle East. Virtually all Muslims in the region want
the Jews exterminated.

In this regard, let us review the prophetic warning
of how God is going to determine which nation(s) come under His
judgment axe.

"FOR BEHOLD, in those days and at that
time when I shall reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes
of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and will bring
them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and there will I deal
with and execute judgment upon them for their treatment of My people
and of My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations
and because they have divided My land." (Joel 3:1-2;
Parallel
Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary)

Once again, we see God's premise for judgment: the wickedness
these Arab people have showered down upon Israel will return upon
their own heads, at His Omnipotent hand.

"For as you [Edom] have drunk upon
the mountain of My holiness, desecrating it in the wild revelry
of the destroyers, so shall all the nations drink continually, in
turn, of My wrath." (Obadiah 16; Parallel
Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary)

Please understand that God is going to carry out many
slaughters of people and armies during the entire "Day of the
Lord". That time period is generally considered to begin during
the final war to produce Antichrist, to continue throughout the
seven-year Tribulation, and then begin again once Satan is loosed
from his 1,000 years of captivity so he can go forth to deceive
the nations one last time.

Now you should understand why it is prophetically
impossible for Israel to ever enjoy peace with her Islamic neighbors.

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IV. Israeli
Prime Minister Olmert issued a bold, clarion call for a tough, "robust"
international peacekeeping force to be stationed just north of the
Lebanese border What was really shocking, however, was his call
for German troops.

"The international force Israel is seeking in
southern Lebanon needs to be comprised of some 15,000 troops, Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert told British newspapers on Wednesday."

Prime Minister Olmert has been speaking so much about
the necessity of foreign peacekeepers lately a person can be forgiven
if he believes that this might have been the end goal all along.
Indeed, as we stated in our newsletter of two weeks ago, one of
the elements which would assure Israeli citizens that the country
would be safe even if it withdrew from the West Bank might be a
strong, "robust" foreign peacekeeping force. Such a force
would have to be heavily armed, probably with strong armored units.
Such a force would have to be aggressively led, and free from political
entanglements, so that it could forcibly disarm Hezbollah and pursue
any attackers with vigor.

The Israeli Prime Minister spoke to those concerns.

"It has to be made up of armies, not of retirees,
of real soldiers, not of pensioners who have come to spend leisurely
months in south Lebanon, but, rather, an army with combat units
that is prepared to implement the UN resolution. I think it has
to have about 15,000 soldiers. I think that's more or less what
the international community understands," Olmert told the Times
and the Telegraph."

* "Armies -- not retirees"

* "Real soldiers, not pensioners who have come
to spend leisurely months in south Lebanon.

* An army with real combat units, prepared to fight

This is the peacekeeping force Olmert had in mind.
But, then he delivers a rousing shock -- he would authorize those
tough troops to be German!

"BERLIN - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
would welcome the participation of German soldiers in a stabilisation
force in South Lebanon, he said in an interview with a German newspaper
today. 'I have informed (German) Chancellor Angela Merkel that we
have absolutely no problem having German troops in South Lebanon',
Olmert told the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung ... 'There is no other
nation that Israel considers more of a friend that Germany ... I
would be very happy if Germany participated ' ...."

Now, that has to be quite a shocking turnaround! An
Israeli Prime Minister inviting strong, vital and aggressively led
German units to be positioned right on Israel's northern border
with Lebanon! Those Jews who vividly remember the historical reality
of the Holocaust have to be surprised beyond belief -- as only 61
years have passed since the last Nazi extermination camp was closed!

This next news segment speaks exactly to this kind
of response.

"The German government has not ruled out sending
troops to the Middle East but many citizens are uneasy about sending
soldiers to the region some 60 years after the Holocaust."

Isn't it interesting that, at the same time Muslims
throughout the world are leading the way to a vigorous denial of
the historicity of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jew, mainstream
Jews led by the likes of Olmert, are suddenly so comfortable they
can invite heavily armed German troops to their northern border?

V. Jordan's
King warned yesterday that the all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah
in Lebanon was severely weakening Moderate Arab influence throughout
the region, even to the point of causing some Moderate regimes to
fall.

"AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's king warned the United
States and Israel Thursday that the fighting in Lebanon has weakened
moderates across the Mideast. Even if Hezbollah is destroyed, the
hostility toward Israel is so high that another such group could
pop up in Syria, Egypt, Iraq - or even his own country, King Abdullah
II was quoted as saying ... 'The Arab people see Hezbollah as a
hero because it's fighting Israel's aggression," he said. 'This
is a fact that the U.S. and Israel must realize'..."

Pardon me, but this "moderate" Jordanian
King must understand this hard reality: as we stated above, the
vast majority of every Arab citizen throughout the Middle East hates
the Jew with a vengeance -- a hatred that these type of Muslims
hope will one day result in the violent death of every Jew alive.
Furthermore, Islamic terrorists have been murdering babies, men,
women and children in suicide attacks since 1982.

Israel has every right to defend herself against this
type of enemy, who boldly arms itself on the northern border, inside
Lebanon, with arms capable of wreaking real havoc and death deep
inside Israel. Remember, too, this Arab enemy disperses its key
assets and offices inside civilian areas so that civilian casualties
will inevitably occur. We do not excuse Israel of all culpability,
but by and large, the evidence seems to suggest that Israel is credibly
fighting a ruthless enemy who will stop at nothing to discredit
and destroy Israel.

Let us now return to this featured article:

"Abdullah and other Arab moderates, such as the
Egyptian and Saudi leaders, have warned recently that the fighting
was hurting any hope for reviving Mideast peacemaking. In a joint
interview with the Al Rai and Al Ghad dailies, Abdullah said Israel's
'aggression has exceeded all limits and must stop immediately'.He
warned that Israeli attacks in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories
have created 'despair in the whole region' and 'weakened the voice
of moderation'." (Ibid.)

Cutting Edge has always maintained that labels
are erroneous and should be avoided at all times.
Whether the label is Republican, Democrat,
Moderate, or Extremist, it always serves more to mislead than to
accurately portray a correct picture. In this case, what have "moderate"
Muslim leaders done to bring peace to the region and allow Israel
to peacefully coexist with her neighbors?

* Egypt has gone to war against Israel in 1948, 1954,
1967, and 1973. Even though Anwar Sadat's successors have largely
adhered to the peace treaty with Israel, her armies annually carry
out mock war games, each one simulating an all-out attack on Israel.

* Saudi Arabia is thought of as a "moderate"
voice in the region, but she is home of the most radical of all
Muslim sects -- the Wahabbi.

* Jordan has gone to war with Israel in most of the
years mentioned above. Once King Hussein took over the controls
of Jordan, his leadership has generally been thought of as "moderate".
Yet, each time Israel has been at the brink of really destroying
Palestinian terror groups, Jordan has been at the forefront of applying
diplomatic pressure to stop Israel from finally destroying her implacable
terrorist enemies.

But, the king is right on one subject: Israel's war
against Palestinian terror groups, plus America's aggressive war
against the Iraqi's, have completely infuriated Muslims throughout
the region against anything Western. As we stated in our numerous
articles, "Blood In The Streets", Western powers seemed
to be following a strategy of deliberately trying to trigger the
militarily inferior Muslim nations into attacking Western interests
throughout the Middle East, especially Israel.

Note the Muslim nations mentioned in this article,
keeping the repeated waves of armies in mind who are prophesied
as marching against Israel.

* Jordan

* Lebanon

* Syria

* Egypt

* Indonesia

* Saudi Arabia

"Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup or bowl
of reeling to all the peoples round about, and in the siege against
Jerusalem will there also be a siege against and upon Judah ...
And it shall be in that day that I will make it My aim to destroy
all the nations that come against Jerusalem." (Zechariah
12:2, 9; Parallel
Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary)

"WASHINGTON — Two top U.S. generals said
Thursday that the sectarian violence in Iraq is much worse than they
had ever anticipated and could lead to civil war, arguing that improving
the situation is now more a matter of Iraqi political will than of
U.S. military strategy. ... 'The sectarian violence is probably as
bad as I've seen it', Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. military
operations in the Middle East, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
... If not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move towards civil
war'."

Don't you find it a little unnerving when the two top
generals to whom the Iraq war has been entrusted admit to Senators
on nationwide TV that the "sectarian violence in Iraq is much
worse than they had ever anticipated"? We pay our politicians
and top military officers to correctly assess a problem and then devise
the proper strategy to solve that problem. At the very least, these
generals have failed to accomplish this minimal task.

However, we do appreciate the fact that these generals
-- with Secretary Rumsfeld in their midst -- confirmed that the likely
end of this sorry war is exactly what Cutting Edge said three years
ago -- a civil war which allows the Kurds to be free from Sunni and
Shi'ite control; in this article, we noted that the Kurds were likely
to be split apart so they could fulfill God's prophesy of them in
the Last Days, in Babylon (Iraq). This old article is becoming most
relevant today, so we encourage you to read it in full.

Now, let us return to our featured article for much more information:

"The testimony from Abizaid and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, was the military's most dire assessment
of conditions in Iraq since the war began 40 months ago. It echoed
the opinion of Britain's outgoing ambassador to Iraq, who, in a confidential
memo revealed Thursday, told Prime Minister Tony Blair that a de facto
partition of Iraq is more likely than a transition to democracy ...
"

This next segment will probably surprise you, for it raises practical
and legal questions not publicized before.

"Sen. John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Armed Services Committee,
said the administration may need to seek new authorization from Congress
to allow U.S. troops to fight in a civil war. Originally, U.S. forces
were authorized to topple Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party. Senators
from both parties questioned whether troops were adequately trained
to fight in a civil war. If it comes to that, asked Sen. Evan Bayh,
D-Ind., 'which side are we on?' "

Secretary Rumsfeld chose to ignore this question, calling it speculative,
saying that the situation did not have to get this bad, because he
was confident the Iraqi leadership and people would "seize the
moment" to rule and reign their own country. As I read this,
I could sense the ghost of President Nixon and his Defense Secretary
MacNamara, as they uttered the same platitudes about the ability of
the South Vietnamese government and Army holding the country together
after American troops left. But, as history records, the North Vietnamese
waited almost two years before launching their invasion -- and the
South collapsed like a house of cards.

But, at least, President Nixon and Defense Secretary MacNamara looked
like heroes for nearly two years!

Indeed, American soldiers fighting in Iraq certainly believe civil
war has already come to Iraq.

"BAGHDAD, Iraq — While American politicians and generals
in Washington discuss the possibility of civil war in Iraq, many U.S.
officers and enlisted men who patrol Baghdad say it already has begun.
Army troops in and around the capital interviewed in the past week
cite a long list of evidence that the center of the nation is coming
undone: Villages have been abandoned by Sunni and Shiite Muslims;
Sunni insurgents have killed thousands of Shiites in car bombings
and assassinations; Shiite militia death squads have tortured and
killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Sunnis; and, when night falls,
neighborhoods become open battlegrounds."

"The bodies of captured Sunni and Shiite fighters turn up in
the morning, dropped in canals and left on the side of the road. Higher-ranking
U.S. officers concede that developments are threatening to move beyond
their grasp. 'There's no plan — we are constantly reacting',
said a senior military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
'I have absolutely no idea what we're going to do'."

Those are sobering words from "senior" military officials,
revealing an unacceptable reality:

* "There's no plan"

* "I have absolutely no idea what we're going to do"

Senior Iraqi officials also believe the country has already slipped
into civil war.

"This is a civil war," said a senior adviser to the commander
of the Iraqi Army's 6th Division, which oversees much of Baghdad.
'The problem between Sunnis and Shiites is a religious one, and it
gets worse every time they attack each other's mosques. "Iraq
is now caught in hell."

I believe that Iraq has, indeed, already slipped into civil war.
Whenever 100 people from all sides of the conflict -- Kurds, Sunnis,
Shi'ites -- are dying daily, that is a civil war.

"... violence now claims 100 victims a day, according to one
report, and Baghdad is not secure. Recent pledges from President Bush
that the U.S. might be able to begin reducing the number of troops
in Iraq were upended when the Pentagon announced recently that 3,700
troops who had been planning to return home over the next two weeks
will be sent to Baghdad for as long as four months. Both generals
told the committee they could not say when the insurgency would be
defeated, when Iraqi militias might be disbanded, when Iraqi forces
would be strong enough to fight on their own, or when U.S. troops
could withdraw. Abizaid said he expects Iraq to 'move toward equilibrium
... in the next five years'."

Five years? By that time, too many Iraqi civilians will be dying
of Depleted
Uranium poisoning that the genocide cannot be hidden
any longer. Surely, American troops have to be out before hundreds
of bodies per day are going to be carted to mass graves by dump truck!

VI.
Initial military investigations have revealed that the murder and
rape charges against American Marines in Haditha, Iraq, are true!

"WASHINGTON (AP) - An initial U.S. military probe
supports allegations that American Marines deliberately shot 24 Iraqi
civilians in Haditha last November, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.
The Marine Corps and Navy prosecutors are now reviewing the evidence
to determine whether to recommend criminal charges ... They discussed
the matter on condition they not be identified because the case -
among the most sensational of several involving Iraqi civilian deaths
- has not yet produced charges ... The case is open because prosecutors
and officers in the chain of command of the Marines being investigated
may consult with the naval investigation service even after any charges
are brought."

"Investigators conducted a wide range of interviews
with Marines in Iraq and with Iraqis in Haditha, but they failed to
obtain permission to exhume the bodies of the 24 who were killed,
two officials said. Nonetheless the probe did collect evidence from
the Marines and from the scene of the killings. The case is one of
several involving allegations of unjustified killings of Iraqi civilians
that have emerged this year, damaging the U.S. image abroad and triggering
calls by some Iraqi leaders to end the arrangement under which U.S.
troops are immune from prosecution by Iraqi authorities."

This next segment tells the basic facts of this murder
investigation, in case you missed the original stories.

"The Marines initially reported after the Nov.
19, 2005, killings at Haditha that 15 Iraqi civilians had been killed
by a makeshift roadside bomb and in crossfire between Marines and
insurgent attackers. Based on accounts from survivors and human rights
groups, Time magazine reported in March that the killings were deliberate
acts by the Marines ... A parallel investigation is examining whether
officers in the Marines' chain of command tried to cover up the events.
That probe, which has not been made public, faults some officers for
failing to pursue discrepancies in the initial reports about what
happened in Haditha and for not launching an early investigation."

"Public attention on the Haditha case grew after
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a former Marine, asserted on May 17 that
he had learned from Marine Corps officials that innocent Iraqis had
been killed 'in cold blood'.''

In defense, lawyers of the accused stated that they
were just following explicit orders to kill every Iraqi male who could
serve the insurgency!

"AN AMERICAN soldier told a military tribunal in
Iraq yesterday how his comrades smiled before shooting dead three
handcuffed Iraqi prisoners and threatened to kill him if he told anyone
what they had done. The murder charges, already controversial for
a military prosecuting cases of massacre, rape and murder by its troops
in Iraq, has been made all the more difficult for the Army by the
accused soldiers’ defence that they were following orders to
kill all military-aged males."

"The trial, held at a US army base in Saddam Hussein’s
home town of Tikrit, heard testimony from Private Bradley Mason that
three of his comrades bound and shot three Iraqi prisoners during
a raid on a suspected al-Qaeda training camp on a river island near
Samarra ... The soldiers, from the 3rd Combat Brigade of the 101st
Airborne Division, arrived early on the morning of May 9 at the suspected
base in a disused chemical factory by helicopter ... Private Mason
said that Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard, the squad leader, told
him that two of the defendants, Private Corey Clagett and Specialist
William Hunsaker, were going to kill the detainees.

“They just smiled,” he said, describing the men’s
reaction to Sergeant Girouard’s comment. “I told him that
I’m not down with it. It’s murder,” Private Mason
said. He then reported gunshots and found the detainees dead. He said
that Sergeant Girouard then warned him: 'If you say anything I’ll
kill you'.”

"EVEN IF FIDEL CASTRO recovers fully from surgery,
it is clear that the "sharp intestinal crisis with sustained
bleeding" announced Monday to a stunned people weary of his half
a century of misrule marks the start of Cuba's transition to the post-Fidel
era. Beyond the immediate questions about the true state of el comandante's
health, the intriguing issues are whether the communist regime can
outlive its creator and whether the outside world has a say in the
matter. Castro has clearly been haunted by this question, as evidenced
by his brutal crackdown in recent years on any form of political dissent
or economic liberalization. Cuba is a basket case, partly getting
by on Venezuelan handouts. There is no reason to believe that Castro's
acolytes will be able to keep the Stalinist theme park intact for
very long after his death. But there's no way of knowing how long
and how messy the transition will be."

"Fidel's brother, Raul, has been handed the reins
of power temporarily. Although long regarded as the regime's bad cop,
overseeing the military and security apparatus, Raul is a proponent
of some of the economic reforms that Fidel rejected ... The White
House has long planned for this moment, but the U.S. approach is at
once too little and too much. It is not ambitious enough to convince
Cubans that the U.S. will help improve their living standards, yet
it is political enough to come across as more Yankee meddling."

"George Bush has told Cubans he would help them
work for democratic change should the rule of Fidel Castro be nearing
an end. In his first public comments since Castro temporarily transferred
power to his brother, Raul, due to illness Bush said on Thursday:
"We have repeatedly said that the Cuban people deserve to live
in freedom. 'We will support you in your effort to build a transitional
government in Cuba committed to democracy, and we will take note of
those, in the current Cuban regime, who obstruct your desire for a
free Cuba'."

It seems doubtful that present Cuban leadership will
take kindly to Bush offering "Democracy". But, unless Russia
or Venezuela steps in with huge amounts of money and maybe police
and military reinforcements, it seems doubtful that Fidel's successors
could hold on for long. Indeed, the point of transition will be interesting.

We shall soon address how the Cuban exiles living in
Florida are reacting to this turn of events. That could really be
interesting!

As white-hot furor erupted from the Israeli Far-Right
over Olmert's statement that the war in Lebanon would make it
easier to unilaterally withdraw from the West Bank, the Prime
Minister retreated in a hurry, even issuing a retraction! But
be not deceived -- that is the ultimate plan and will occur after
the war is over and a "robust" foreign buffer force
is in place.

Welcome to the "The Ant Bully,"
a Warner Brothers animation
released on July 28. Do you wonder why a powerful liberal media
conglomerate such as Time-Warner would pour millions of dollars
into marketing
such a political allegory for five-year-olds?

A blatant promotion of Communitarian
solidarity, the movie illustrates some key steps in today's systematic
process of brainwashing. If that's hard to believe, please see
"The
Revolutionary Roots of the UN."Then, before we go back to the movie, ponder these statements
by global minded change agents:

"...all of us, including the 'owners,'
must be subjected to a large degree of social control...

Responding to a recent Supreme Court decision forbidding
the kind of Military Tribunals the Bush Administration set up
after the 9/11 attacks, Attorney General Gonzales and President
Bush have drawn up a proposed bill which would still threaten
American citizens with loss of Constitutional Guarantees and vital
personal liberties.

Quote of the Day: Using "war
on terrorism as an excuse to declare a state of emergency, suspend
civil liberties, and jail political opponents". This
quote might have come from Cutting Edge, but it did not! It came
from mainline commentator, Ted Rall, writing in Yahoo News --
in July, 2003!

It is not "The Lord is partly my portion,"
nor "The Lord is in my portion"; but He Himself makes
up the sum total of my soul's inheritance. Within the circumference
of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my
portion. Not His grace merely, nor His love, nor His covenant, but
Jehovah Himself. He has chosen us for His portion, and we have chosen
Him for ours. It is true that the Lord must first choose our inheritance
for us, or else we shall never choose it for ourselves; but if we
are really called according to the purpose of electing love, we
can sing--

"Lov'd of my God for Him again
With love intense I burn;
Chosen of Him ere time began,
I choose Him in return."

The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills Himself; and if
God is all-sufficient in Himself, He must be all-sufficient for
us. It is not easy to satisfy man's desires. When he dreams that
he is satisfied, anon he wakes to the perception that there is somewhat
yet beyond, and straightway the horse-leech in his heart cries,
"Give, give." But all that we can wish for is to be found
in our divine portion, so that we ask, "Whom have I in heaven
but Thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee."
Well may we "delight ourselves in the Lord" who makes
us to drink of the river of His pleasures. Our faith stretches her
wings and mounts like an eagle into the heaven of divine love as
to her proper dwelling-place. "The lines have fallen to us
in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage." Let us
rejoice in the Lord always; let us show to the world that we are
a happy and a blessed people, and thus induce them to exclaim, "We
will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."

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